Frequently Asked Questions

List pairs a square headshot with location, professional interests, a selected searchable credit, a few skills, and up to two current filter matches when available. It leaves dates, private notes, and hidden or search-excluded credits out of the overview. The row stacks when needed for comfortable reading. Follow the photo, name, or View profile for the complete shared profile. Grid stays compact, and Save to board remains available in both layouts.

Auditions currently shows ReadyCasting postings and its own appointment tools. External source feeds are being assessed, but external audition aggregation is not available yet.

After saving My Account → Credits, expand a credit and choose Connect to production history. Compare title, company, venue, place, and dates; choose Use This Production, This Is a Different Production, or I’m Not Sure. A different staging is a different record. Uncertainty queues a private connection review without blocking your personal credit. Linked titles and roles open the particular production; linked directors and companies open their historical records. The Company column stays separate from Director. People and organizations do not need accounts. Find the archive through credits, Material play details, or the footer. Only information deliberately submitted to the public archive is published; private projects and résumé files are not migrated into it.

Open a historical person and request an identity link under Contribute / request a correction. Staff review that link separately from participation. Then use This credit refers to me on a production credit. Feature on my profile and Hide from my profile independently control your personal résumé; neither deletes shared history. Claimed participants can confirm another participant or an exact role, request a confirmation from another linked claimant, and withdraw their own statements. Changed record details flag confirmations for review. Self-confirmation is blocked across aliases and linked duplicate identities. Peer statements are attributed corroboration, not independent verification, and never grant privileges. My claims & requests in the archive shows your review and confirmation requests.

Open a visible member profile and choose Connect. Manage requests, accept or decline them, remove connections, or block an account under Members → My connections. Shared claimed productions can appear on visible profiles. Connections do not confirm historical credits, expose private profiles, or grant workspace permissions. People who have no accounts can still have historical records.

No contributor owns a historical record. Members can suggest corrections, supply sources, dispute attribution, and report duplicates. Authorized staff review these requests and preserve revision history. Alternate names keep their context; names marked private are excluded from public records and search. Deceased status requires a source and staff approval. Administrators merge confirmed duplicate people, organizations, or stagings with redirects and a retained audit; conflicting originals go to review. Merges can be undone while the records remain otherwise unchanged. Original wording, sources, photographs, claims, and confirmations are retained. Shared titles alone are never enough to merge productions.

Up Next shows your next five booked audition appointments, with an email-verification reminder when needed. Continue Working links to up to six recently updated projects, auditions, and member boards you own or can access, including shared company work. Updates determine the order; this is not a history of pages you visited. Recently Added Material shows up to six published entries ordered by when they first joined ReadyCasting, not the historical date of the play. Unapproved suggestions and unavailable videos do not appear. What’s New uses the same concise milestones as Development progress. Create an audition from Auditions; Companies remains in the Edit My Profile sidebar rather than the dashboard shortcuts.

The timeline collects related improvements into member-facing milestones, newest first. Dates and date ranges come from the recorded releases. A milestone may summarize several commits; small follow-up improvements can update an existing entry. Looking ahead is a separate, tentative list, not a list of available features. Detailed historical notes are retained in the project archive.

The ReadyCasting logo opens your dashboard when signed in and the public homepage when signed out. Material, Auditions, Projects, and Members are direct main-menu links. My Account keeps Edit My Profile, View My Profile, Account Settings, permitted Admin tools, and Log Out together. Productions and Companies are links in the Edit My Profile sidebar. On smaller screens, open Menu. About, FAQ, Contact, and Progress remain in the footer.

In My Account → Credits, use the eye beside a row to show or hide that credit on your profile. A closed eye also excludes it from member search and hides its shared credit picture. Use the magnifying glass to exclude a visible credit from member-search matching while leaving it on your profile. Save profile applies your choices alongside other edits; hidden credits and original pictures remain available to you. Existing credits stay visible and searchable until you change them. These controls do not remove independent shared production records, information you repeat in your bio or training, or copies already saved by others. Search exclusion controls ReadyCasting member search, not external search engines.

Projects helps you visualize and plan future work. My Account → Edit My Profile → Productions opens My productions: completed shared stagings connected to your saved credits or participation claims. Browse productions finds other historical stagings. Connect a saved credit through My Account → Credits. Unlink removes that personal connection while keeping your credit; Withdraw removes your participation claim. Neither deletes the public production or its other participants. Hiding a personal credit also leaves the shared historical record intact. Use My claims & requests to follow confirmation and correction requests.

Expand a saved credit in My Account → Credits and choose Connect to production history to find the actual staging. The shared production page is independent of private planning. Create new workspaces from Projects; the credit editor no longer offers Create Project From This Credit. Existing projects and historical links remain intact.

Yes. Open its details and choose Delete project or Delete audition. Only its owner can delete it, including a sample; collaborators cannot. Confirm the named item to continue, or cancel to keep it. Project deletion removes the workspace, sharing access, and project-only photos. Audition deletion closes access and cancels existing appointments. Public production history, Material, personal credits, and personal photos are preserved. Deleted samples are not automatically recreated. Deletion cannot be undone.

Choose Add a participant on the production page, find or add the person, and select their production role. Options follow the same theatre-role categories as profile interests, with your interests first. Performing roles also include Character name. Linking a play brings in its recorded Material characters; Add performer starts a credit for that character. These character slots are not historical participation claims. You can enter another character for this staging. Source-listed character lists may be partial or edition-specific; possible alternate names are reviewed instead of automatically merged.

Only the owner can choose Make project public, after verifying their email. The public page includes the title, production description, company / theatre, director, playwright, and cast roles. Custom cast names are public. Linked members appear by name and profile link only when their own profile is public and available. Private notes, casting preferences, uploaded cast photos, and collaborator grants stay in the workspace. Copy public project link opens the public page without sign-in on production; the development Site retains its private hosting gate. Make project private blocks new public requests. Sharing with members or companies still grants workspace access, including notes; revoking a collaborator does not unpublish the production page. Sample projects stay private.

Theatre projects can contribute work titles, explicitly supplied authors, and named characters through the same automatic source-checking queue as résumé credits. Performer names, company contacts, private notes, photos, and account details are excluded. Directors and crew positions are not treated as playwrights or characters. Information reaches Material only after ChatGPT source review and staff approval. Admin → Material review retains actual findings, consulted sources, originating production, and staff decisions. Failed, inconclusive, and pending checks remain unpublished and retryable; an individual provider failure does not block the commit workflow, while missing credentials or an unavailable endpoint still surface as an operational failure. Projects and credits themselves are never changed by that process.

Before publishing a new production, supply City, Year or start date, at least one Director, and at least one producing Company. Company is separate from the optional Venue. Choose Unknown or Not applicable and explain when a core field cannot honestly be supplied. Save private draft keeps unfinished information visible only to you; return through My Account → Edit My Profile → Productions → My productions. Publishing creates a shared historical record, so it no longer belongs only to its original contributor. Existing incomplete public history stays available and can receive corrections through stewardship review.

Directors entered in a production’s core details become ordinary contributor credits. Add a participant supports performers, directors, stage managers, designers, producers, and the other standard theatre roles. Multiple people can share a role, and one person can hold several roles. Choose Other production role to enter an additional job and its team section; known role names normalize to the standard option. Original role wording and credited-as names remain available in Additional credit details. Production jobs do not become fictional characters in Material. Open Participation & credit actions on a row to claim participation, request an identity link, use available peer confirmations, or submit a correction. Published corrections still need the existing staff review; adding a historical person never creates a member account.

Themes describe subject matter, such as Family or Identity; Feelings describe possible emotional qualities, such as Grief or Hope. Open Filters → Themes & feelings to select either or both. Theme, feeling, style, period, and character requirements must match together; selected age ranges remain alternatives. The labels stay applied when filters close or you switch collections, Grid, or List. Clear a tag or choose Clear All to broaden your search. Labels are editorial interpretations of reviewed text or existing synopses, not performance instructions. Open an entry for the review basis where available. Plays, Authors, and Videos can match their connected passages; an author’s labels describe works, not personal feelings. Coverage is partial, and blank labels mean unclassified, not that a theme or emotion is absent. Songs use the same controls when reviewed labels are available.

Follow a result heading to its detail page. A monologue shows its character above the play title and gives stored script text normal page scrolling, with context and sources nearby. Plays show available synopses, characters, related monologues, and known productions. Authors show their biography and works. Empty optional sections stay out of the reading area. Source attributions, edition links, available previews, and existing permissions are preserved. Copy link shares the current record; Material still requires member sign-in.

Many Plays and Authors now include sourced summaries. On the play or author detail page, Wikipedia excerpts show their article, license, and shortening notice; ReadyCasting descriptions based on publisher or producing-theatre information link to those sources. Some entries remain unfilled where the work, creator, or reusable source is uncertain. Summaries may reveal plot details and do not grant script or performance rights. Search also matches the new summary text. Monologue results show the character first and the play below it. Follow the heading to open details and sources. Both Grid and List start with compact previews. Read More loads and expands that result in place, including available context; Read Less restores the preview. A loading message and Retry action appear if the additional content cannot load. Returning to a recent search or reopening content reuses it briefly within your signed-in session. Both preserve paragraph breaks and use ordinary page scrolling. Monologue summary is labeled separately from script text. Character facts sit beside the reading area in a wide List or beneath the heading in Grid and on smaller screens; selected attribute matches are labeled Matches your filters. Related play summaries appear with the expanded material; use About [play title] & sources to open its full details and attribution. Results and details use the same saved wording, and no text is invented for entries without it.

In Members, use Browse members to find people and Save to board to choose or create a board. My boards holds your boards; Shared with me holds boards shared with you or a company you belong to. Boards start private and do not notify the people you save. Owners can share with individuals or companies, choose View or supported Edit access, and revoke access. A board stores references, so it never makes a private or unavailable profile visible. Keep up to 100 boards with 100 members each. Full profiles retain credits and biographies; browsing cards emphasize photos, names, locations, opportunities, and selected filter matches.

My Companies lists groups you own or manage as an administrator. Shared with me lists groups you joined as a member. Existing membership roles still determine who can manage a company or edit a shared resource.

Open My Account → About Me and use I’m looking for opportunities as. Search or expand grouped roles for performing, directing and movement, writing, production and stage management, design, technical work, and front of house, education, and administration. Select as many as apply; remove choices with their ×. These optional choices appear on your profile and can be matched in member search.

My Casts is now Projects in the main navigation. The dashboard puts booked appointments in Up Next and recently updated projects, auditions, and member boards in Continue Working. Your existing projects, roles, member assignments, notes, and sharing permissions remain in place. Create a project starts a production plan; Cast members holds its roles and performers. Old cast bookmarks and shared links open the corresponding project. Audition postings still have their own Auditions workspace.

Open My Account → Account Settings → Email & security. Choose Change email or Change password and confirm your current password. For a new email, follow the confirmation link sent to the new address; your existing address works until you confirm. New passwords must contain at least eight characters. These actions are separate from Save profile. Forgot your current password? Use Reset Password first.

Material, Auditions, Projects, Companies, and Members use consistent page headings and the same toolbar above results. On narrow screens, swipe the section tabs horizontally to reach additional views; keyboard users can Tab to each view. Filters stays on the left beside its panel; Sort By and Grid / List share the right side. Sort the full matching set before pagination; changing order returns to the first page. Material offers alphabetical title/name order, Members alphabetical name order, and auditions, projects, and boards offer newest or oldest additions. Default order preserves the existing ordering; audition-show recommendations retain their ranking under Default order. Material uses Read More / Read Less in both Grid and List. Company and board descriptions and audition role lists use it in Grid; their List view shows full result content directly. Hiding filters preserves selections, and the chips let you remove one choice or Clear All. Project search combines words in the project name or play with an optional private-sample filter; filtering and sorting happen on the server before each page is returned. Sparse searches may need Next page to scan more authorized records. My Companies filters your memberships by name and role and can sort by name. Join groups using an invitation or request membership from a company’s shared detail link. Saved casting preferences still support matching, but are not shown as a Roles I play line on member profiles. Pronouns remain optional.

Use Add Monologue, Add Play, Add Author, Add Song, or Add Video above the active Material tab. Include reliable source links and as much identifying detail as you know. The form confirms receipt; there is no additions history to manage. A verified email is required, and you can submit up to ten new additions daily. Only supported metadata enters Material. Source findings and staff decisions are retained. Candidates wait for staff approval before publication; your saved personal credits remain unchanged.

Credits initially appear as compact résumé rows with alternating backgrounds. Click a row or focus it and press Enter or Space to expand its editor. Collapsing keeps your draft. Production, role, company / theatre, director, style, and private year remain separate. Drag the grip on the left to reorder with a mouse or touch. With the grip focused, use Arrow Up / Arrow Down, Home, or End; expanded rows also retain Move up and Move down. Edits and expanded rows survive movement. The trash button on the right asks you to confirm the named credit before removing it from your draft; cancelling keeps all edits. Save profile persists the chosen order and deletions. Deletion removes only that credit and its profile link to a project; independent projects, shared Material, and stored original photos remain. Each credit can include a square picture. Upload a JPEG, PNG, or WebP up to 2 MB, adjust the crop, and save your profile. Only the cropped preview follows your profile’s audience; the original remains private. On a member profile, click a credit picture to open its viewer. Click outside the viewer frame, press Escape, or choose Close photo viewer to return to the same picture. Replace or remove a picture in its row. Manage stored credit pictures lets you download originals or permanently delete stored files.

Profiles use an acting résumé layout with a square primary headshot, name, optional actor details, aligned Credits, Training & education, Skills, and available Videos. Credits starts in List when you have no saved preference. Use Grid for larger square pictures matching member browsing, or List for compact rows; your browser remembers that choice. Production type and Style narrow only the displayed credits, with Reset filters to restore them. Sort By offers Profile order, Production A–Z, or Role A–Z. Profile order is the member’s saved order; other sorts never overwrite it. The headshot, introductory information, training, and videos keep their layout. Company / theatre and director remain separate in credits. Credit and training years remain in My Account and are omitted from member pages. Dates you write in your bio or descriptions still appear. Direct links briefly show Loading, then the actor’s name as the page heading. Browse members appears only when you open a profile from directory results. Missing sections are left out. Public views still exclude private résumé files, unselected photos, credit and training years, credit notes, and account contact details. Square frames keep existing saved crops; this layout does not change uploaded files.

Filters and Sort By are saved in this browser separately for your account and each search area. Production and the private development Site each keep their own preferences. Refreshing or returning restores your selections; signing into a different account uses that account’s choices. Filters can be hidden without clearing them. The applied tags and Clear All stay visible above results. Supported older filter links are imported once and cleaned from the address; new links retain routing and pagination without including filter selections. Clear All clears filter selections while retaining your Sort By choice. Sort By stays out of page addresses. If browser storage is unavailable, choices last for the current session.

My Account opens a short menu: Edit My Profile, View My Profile, Account Settings, Admin for authorized staff, and Log Out. Edit My Profile contains About Me, Credits, Skills, Training, Headshots, Videos, Résumés, and Account Settings, plus sidebar links to Productions and Companies. Switching sections keeps your draft; Save profile saves all profile changes, including your address. Account Settings groups profile visibility, your member address, email verification, email and password changes, memberships, and Community & identity. Staff review community requests in Admin. Material additions receive online source checks and wait in Admin → Material review. History stewardship handles identity links, corrections, disputes, and duplicate records. Only the owner manages account levels and Ideas & Reports from everyone. Old staff review links lead to Admin.

Yes. Under Edit My Profile → About Me, choose any pronoun sets, add custom wording one entry at a time, or leave the choices empty. Existing wording is retained, including custom values. Save profile applies your selections wherever your profile is visible; it does not change your privacy settings.

They count matching entries in each category for your search words and attribute filters, before pagination. Full text and audition-show recommendations apply to Monologues. Counts keep their last values with an updating indicator while a new search loads; a dash means no count is available yet, and 0 means no matches. Natural titles such as The Foreigner display normally; alphabetical ordering ignores leading A, An, and The in work titles, while audition-show recommendations can be ranked by relevance.

In Create a project or Edit project details, enter a Play / project and use Link a catalog play to search by title or playwright. After saving, Add roles from play lets you select characters. Each starts unfilled. Choose Assign member to search discoverable members or enter a custom person; leave Name blank if the role is undecided. Catalog character connects an individual entry, and Casting preferences holds optional attributes. Existing assignments stay in place. Changing or unlinking the play keeps roles, people, photos, notes, and preferences, but removes old character links. Project edits never notify performers or offer them a role. Eligible theatre titles, explicitly named authors, and character names can enter automatic source verification before any addition to Material.

Use the section navigation for About Me, Credits, Skills, Training, Headshots, Videos, Résumés, and Account Settings. Your compact square photo and name sit above the left section menu. Click the photo to edit Headshots. Productions and Companies appear in this sidebar as links to their existing pages; save your draft before leaving. View My Profile is at the top-right of the wider content header; visibility controls remain in Account Settings. The selected section stays in the address so refresh, shared section links, and browser back work. On smaller screens the identity block and collapsible section menu stack above the editor; Account Settings opens as its own section. Save profile applies your edits across sections. Switching sections keeps unsaved edits.

After signing in, Material, Auditions, Projects, and Members appear directly in the header. My Account includes profile editing and Account Settings. Open Edit My Profile to find Productions and Companies in its sidebar; their existing direct links still work. About, FAQ, and Contact are also always available in the footer. Search help on this page narrows questions and answers as you type; Sort By switches between Topic order and Question A–Z. Link to this answer gives a direct address that opens an individual answer.

Yes. Register once, then verify your email before booking or publishing auditions. You can return with the same account for future projects. Check each audition’s requirements; headshots and résumés are optional profile uploads, and an organizer can ask you to bring them.

About Me holds your name, location, bio, interests, and Actor details & casting preferences. Headshots and Résumés manage your files. Videos holds reels and performance links. Credits holds productions and roles with separate company / theatre and director fields. Skills holds individual special skills and dialects. Training holds education, programs, and acting teachers. Account Settings controls directory discovery, public profile access, and your member address. Old Visibility links open Account Settings. Old Stats and Credits & skills links open Credits; the underlying experience still supports recommendations. Select a section inside Edit My Profile; the address keeps your selected section through refresh and browser back/forward. Use Save profile to keep edits. Unsaved profile changes stays visible until you save. Following a link to another page, signing out, or closing the tab warns about unsaved edits. If a field needs attention in another tab, saving opens that section and focuses it.

All actor details are optional. Height defaults to feet and inches and weight to pounds; metric entry is also available; ReadyCasting stores centimeters and kilograms for comparison. Add your playing-age range and select multiple eye colors, hair colors, and voice types where useful. Pronouns stay editable. Type whole numbers in the selected units. Existing decimal measurements are preserved; when they do not convert exactly to whole numbers, the saved value is shown for reference until you choose a replacement. Unclear older measurements remain visible for review instead of being assigned a guessed unit. Your chosen casting preference can help recommendations; it is not inferred from your name or pronouns.

In Credits, add a production, role, Company, and Director in separate fields. You can also enter a year, medium, and style. Recognizable older company / director pairs are moved into those fields automatically. Any ambiguous text is retained in Credit notes for review; no original information is discarded. Theatre searches include retained notes.

Add Special skills and Dialects one at a time. For each Education & training entry, choose Education or Training and enter the institution, program, year, and any useful details. Expand Details within an entry to edit its longer description; collapsing preserves it. Acting teachers has separate name and class-details fields. Suggestions from shared member profiles help keep spellings consistent; you can enter a new value. Old training text is kept in Details, while existing source text is retained privately. Fill in institutions and programs to make those specific filters useful.

Only profiles with Let ReadyCasting members find my profile enabled and saved appear in Members. Directory discovery shares your profile with signed-in members. A separate, optional public-link setting allows visitors without accounts to view a limited profile. Shared information includes your primary and explicitly selected additional headshots, bio, location, credits, actor details, skills, dialects, training, teachers, and video links. Your email address, unselected headshots, credit and training years, account settings, and original résumé files stay private. Turn discovery off and save to remove your profile from member browsing and searches; turn public access off as well to make it private.

Yes. A profile address is assigned when you first save. Edit Profile URL name in My Account → Account Settings and use Save profile to save the address together with your other changes. Address conflicts leave the whole profile unchanged. Previous addresses stay reserved and continue to the current profile when the viewer has access. Both application hosts use /members/your-name/. View my profile is available above profile editing and in the My Account menu.

Only if you enable Allow anyone with my profile link to view it without signing in in My Account → Account Settings and save. This is separate from member-directory discovery. Preview public view shows the fields visitors can see. Original résumés, unselected headshots, credit and training years, account contact information, credit notes, identity evidence, and internal moderation records stay private. Turning public access off blocks new requests at current and previous addresses; copies already saved by visitors cannot be recalled.

Report a community concern from a profile, cast, audition, company, or material entry. Follow requests in My Account → Community & identity. Authorized staff review concerns before taking action. Affected members can see reasons and request review. Identity confirmation is optional, based on a professional reference, company reference, or confirmation call; do not send government IDs or biometric information. A badge confirms an identity review only, not qualifications, conduct, or trustworthiness, and grants no staff privileges.

The Progress link in the footer shows Released, In Progress, and Planned work. Planned items have no promised delivery date. Use the lightbulb for Ideas & Reports to suggest something; An idea is selected first and a fresh screenshot attaches automatically when available.

Material has Monologues, Plays, Authors, Songs, and Videos. Characters remain linked within material details and audition role lookups; no character records were deleted. Longer related-character lists have Show more characters. Old links selecting the Characters search tab open Monologues while retaining search text and filters.

Material, Members, and Auditions share a Filters button with an active count. On a wide screen, controls sit beside results in an independently scrolling sidebar. On a smaller screen, they open in a bounded panel; View results closes it and moves focus to results. Broad words belong in the search field inside the filter panel. Compact, labeled groups separate character details, measurements, skills, and experience; choices update results automatically. Height uses paired ft/in fields; weight uses lb. Leave a range end blank when you do not need a minimum or maximum. Add skills and dialects one at a time with Add or Enter. Longer audition appearance and experience groups expand in place. Filters starts expanded. The top toolbar keeps Filters on the left and Grid/List on the right. Hiding controls keeps selections and results unchanged. Applied chips remain visible for individual removal and Clear All. Filter position is retained when results update and when you reopen the panel. Catalog tab counts describe matching entries before pagination; the results count describes the selected category. Member suggestions do not claim exact per-value counts for the entire directory.

Yes. Normal résumé imports and saved theatre credits automatically queue new or uncertain play titles and named characters for automatic online source checks. No separate permission or submission step is needed. Known entries are matched first, and repeated imports do not produce repeated submissions. Characters stay attached to the correct play. Authors are included only when explicitly identified; company and director credits are never inferred as authors. Your credits save independently and remain intact after approval or rejection. Only source-verified identifying metadata enters Material; personal résumé content, contacts, private credit notes, and files are not published as catalog information.

Publisher information remains connected to source books and play details. Publishers no longer has its own Material tab. Existing publisher links still open, and historical catalog information is preserved.

Open Auditions. Type a play/project name, theatre, character, role note, or other keyword; results update without a Search button. Every word and selected filter must match. Use Filters for a catalog play, playwright, character name, gender, multiple age groups, period, style, eye/hair colors, voice, height and weight ranges, skills, dialects, ethnicity, and experience. All attributes must match one character; ages, colors, voices, and ethnicities offer alternatives, while selected skills and dialects must all match. An Any gender role can match Female or Male searches. Location and upcoming appointment times also apply, plus posting status in My postings or Shared with me. Older postings with unspecified traits will not match filters requiring those details. Collapse Filters without losing selections, remove individual chips, or choose Clear All. Continue moves through the remaining results, and browser Back restores the previous page. Drafts and private samples only appear where you already have permission.

Yes. In Create an audition or Edit posting, use Link a catalog play to search by title or playwright. The selected play links to its Material page and authors. On a Material play page, Find auditions for this play opens the same audition search with that play selected. Add a character, then optionally choose Catalog character to fill blank casting fields from catalog data. Review those historical details for your production. Switching characters updates unchanged catalog defaults while keeping your edits. Use Casting details for each role to add optional requirements. Changing or unlinking the play retains your project text, role notes, and criteria for review; you can also use a completely custom project. Catalog records are not changed by these edits.

Your level appears in My Account. Account permissions explains your level in Community & identity. The owner uses Admin → Account levels to manage access. The owner can find a registered member by their full email address, grant Support, Moderator, or Administrator access, and revoke staff access by choosing Member. Each change needs a reason and is recorded privately. Staff need verified email and an enabled account. Administrators cannot assign levels or alter the owner’s access. These are permission levels, not paid plans; company membership and resource sharing are separate.

Companies are theatre communities, film groups, and production teams. The theatre-mask icon identifies this workspace. Copy invitation link makes sharing a group invitation easier; you still decide where to send it. Create or join a group to collaborate and share casts or auditions. A company owner or admin manages membership; group membership does not grant ReadyCasting staff permissions.

Material → Videos includes 11 additional publisher-hosted performance clips reviewed in September 2026, from National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Guardian Culture. They connect to their plays and characters, including a British Sign Language performance. Source credits appear with each entry. Videos remain hosted by YouTube; availability may change. These are performance references, and embedding a clip does not grant performance rights to a script.

Open Members. Results update as you type. Combine name or keyword search with Company / theatre, Institution, Program, Acting teacher, individual skills, dialects, location, opportunities, and actor attributes. Height and weight use labeled ranges; playing-age ranges match when they overlap. All selected skills and dialects must match. Active filters appear as removable chips, and Clear All resets the search. The search field is inside the filter panel. Filters starts expanded and sits on the left of the toolbar, with Grid and List on the right. Your choice to collapse the panel is kept while browsing; the button shows an active count; hide the controls without changing results, and remove individual chips while the controls are hidden. Members with missing details do not match filters requiring those details. Switch between Grid and List, then select a photo or name to open the profile. Larger searches show the count found so far and a Continue control. All selected filters remain applied across pages and browser navigation. Appearance & voice, Measurements & playing range, and Experience & training can also be collapsed separately. Suggestions are sampled from the directory, so you can also type values that are not suggested.

Upload JPEG, PNG, or WebP images under 8 MB and fewer than 16 million pixels. Crop and zoom each image into a square before adding it. Keep up to 10 headshots and choose a primary photo. Check Show on my profile on any additional photos you want in your member-page gallery, then Save profile. The primary photo is always included. Unselected uploads stay private. Selected photos follow your directory and public-link visibility choices. Uncheck a photo and save to remove it from your page without deleting the upload. Select a gallery thumbnail to see that photo above. Removing the primary photo uses another selected photo if available; it never promotes a private upload. Reset crop restores the starting position. A silhouette is used when no photo is available. Removing a stored headshot or résumé asks for confirmation and deletes the file immediately, independently of Save profile.

Open My Account → Edit My Profile → Videos. Add a title and a HTTPS YouTube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion video link in the compact rows, then Save profile. Expand Preview videos to check the embeds while editing. YouTube and Vimeo clips embed in your profile. Links, including unlisted ones, are shared when directory discovery or public-link access is enabled; public visitors can see them when public access is on. Removing a link here does not delete the original video.

Upload PDF, DOCX, or plain text, up to 2 MB per file and 10 files. PDFs can have up to 10 pages. Text is read in your browser, and the original file stays private. Review suggested credits, actor details, training, and skills before adding them to your profile. Text-only extraction cannot reliably interpret every layout; edit the structured fields when needed. Saved résumés are automatically rechecked when the importer changes. New source details fill gaps without overwriting existing edits or re-adding details removed since the last scan. Recheck saved résumés runs the check again; save current edits first. Original PDF files are never rewritten.

Matches describes the explicit attribute filters an entry satisfies. Material does not display a separate For you section or silently rank results using your profile. Combine the filters you want, including multiple character ages; different filter groups are requirements, while selected values within a group are alternatives. Audition for a play remains an optional mode in the same search.

Open Material and open Filters, and choose Audition for a play within the same search. Select the play by title or playwright and optionally enter role or theme information. Recommendations come from other plays; material from the target play is excluded. Your other filters still apply. Gender, period, and other filters are combined with AND; any one of the selected age ranges can match. Character requirements apply to the same character. The filters also narrow Plays, Authors, Songs, and Videos through their connected works. Entries without supporting catalog information do not match the selected requirements. The search field is inside the filter panel. Filters starts expanded and sits on the left of the toolbar, with Grid and List on the right. Your choice to collapse the panel is kept while browsing; the button shows the active count and lets you hide or show controls without changing results. Filter chips stay beside Filters in the toolbar when collapsed (below the controls on narrow screens); remove one with its × or select Clear All. Search text carries between catalog tabs. Use Grid or List and open a result for details, available text, previews, or linked resources.

Material includes independently sourced public-domain speeches from Standard Ebooks editions, alongside historical references that may not yet have text. Open a monologue to see its source edition, translator credit where applicable, and rights information. The imported passages follow uninterrupted speeches in those editions; translations and boundaries can differ from another published audition cut. Public-domain status is documented for the United States. Character filters use the linked role’s current attributes. Exact source ages and existing catalog ranges are supplemented by source-supported editorial playing ranges labeled Estimated playing range. These describe the character, not the performer. Select the usual age groups; an overlapping range can match. Open Character attribute sources on a detail page for the edition behind reviewed metadata. Age, gender, period, and other categories must match the same character and work. Unspecified traits still do not match a specific filter; style, dialect, or ethnicity is never assumed from the play’s genre, country, or the actor. Available book previews depend on the external provider, and video results offer Play video to load an embedded player when a supported link is available. A play is the dramatic work; a book is an edition or collection that can contain it. Cover availability varies, and designed covers remain a fallback. ReadyCasting does not promise complete text for every catalog entry.

Yes. In Auditions, create a posting with an Audition title and optional Play / project name. Under Characters / roles being cast, add up to 40 named characters or roles with individual notes. Edit or remove them later; they appear in the posting and can be searched along with the project name. Describe the audition requirements and add dates, time ranges, slot lengths, and capacity. Save a private draft or publish after verifying your email. Members can book available times and confirm cancellation of their bookings. Back to auditions restores the filters used to open a result. After a booking, appointment times and location are locked; close the posting and create another if those need to change.

Open a project you own and select Share project or Share audition beside its edit action. Search for an individual discoverable member or select a company, choose View only or editing access, and select Share project. Individuals with editing access can edit; for companies, only owners and administrators can edit while ordinary members remain viewers. Who has access lets you change or remove each grant. Only the project owner controls sharing. Copy project link keeps the destination through sign-in without granting collaborator access. If the owner enables a public production page, anyone with its link can view only its published production details. Shared with me lists both individual and company projects. Private casts include photos and notes; audition sharing also includes booked performers. Removing one grant does not remove another grant through a company. Published auditions remain visible to signed-in members even when a collaborator grant is removed; close the posting to stop new bookings. People without accounts can use an existing company invitation link to register and join, then access projects shared with that company. Sample projects remain private.

Open a cast from Projects, then use Grid or List above Cast members. Grid gives each person a card with their photo or a placeholder; List keeps roles and notes in compact rows. Your layout choice is remembered. The Projects breadcrumb returns to the same list page and sharing view. Open member profile takes you to a linked member; Remove custom photo restores their available member image or the silhouette after saving. Owners and editors can add or edit cast members.

Each account automatically starts with three clearly labeled private audition examples and two private casts with fictional people. You can edit or delete them; deleted samples are not recreated. Sample auditions stay private. Create a new posting when you are ready to publish a real audition.

Select the lightbulb icon at the lower right to open Ideas & Reports. An idea is selected first; choose A problem when needed, and describe it; no separate title is required. Opening the panel takes a fresh screenshot and attaches it automatically for both problems and ideas. Review the image and use Remove Screenshot if you do not want to include it. Capture happens before the drawer opens and covers the current visible view, including its scroll positions. Visible profile and project details are included automatically, without screenshot-specific privacy masks. Capture uses the page you are authorized to see, before the reporting drawer opens. Reports and attachments remain private to their author and the authorized report administrator. Password inputs keep the same bullets shown in the page. Use Inspect full screenshot to zoom or save the exact attachment, or Retake screenshot to try again. Embedded players, protected images, and unsupported browser effects may not render faithfully; warnings ask you to review limitations before sending. Attach a device screenshot when needed. If capture fails, retry, upload an image, or explicitly Continue without a screenshot. Your reports shows your submitted reports; open one for its reply and use Back to report list to return. You can also use the Contact page, available in the footer.